Mechanism to create pattern gesture transmissions to create device-sourcing emergency information

ABSTRACT

A system may comprise a registration device configured to register patterns for users; a recording device configured to record a received pattern, as an electronic pattern, wherein the recording device recognizes the received pattern as one of the registered patterns; a receiving device configured to observe human movement patterns with a camera, transform the observed human movement patterns to an electronic signal, and receive the recognized registered pattern from the recording device by a first wireless transmission; a forwarding device configured to transmit the electronic signal, and the received recognized registered pattern to an alert service by a second wireless transmission; and an alert service, configured to receive the electronic signal and the received recognized registered pattern from the forwarding device and configured to transmit the electronic signal and the received recognized registered pattern to a second electronic device by a third wireless transmission.

This application claims priority to application Ser. No. 15/094,649. Thepresent invention generally relates to patterned gesture transmissions.More particularly, the present invention relates to a mechanism tocreate pattern gesture transmissions to create device-sourcing emergencyinformation.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Non-verbal gestures may be difficult to transmit.

As can be seen, there is a need for a mechanism to create patterngesture transmissions to create device-sourcing emergency information.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

In one aspect, a method comprises utilizing a computer including acomputer processor to: register patterns for users using a registrationcircuit in the computer processor, wherein the patterns include swipinga screen of a first electronic circuit, touching a screen of the firstelectronic circuit, a person blinking the person's eyes, the personbiting the person's teeth, and the person holding the person's breath;record a received pattern as an electronic pattern using a recordingcircuit in the computer processor including a video and an electronicsensor configured to record a received pattern, wherein the recordingcircuit recognizes the received pattern as one of the registeredpatterns; observe human movement patterns with a camera using areceiving circuit in the computer processor, transform the observedhuman movement patterns to an electronic signal, and receive therecognized registered pattern from the recording circuit by a firstwireless transmission, wherein groups of the observed human movementpatterns are recognized as a group pattern; transmit the electronicsignal, and the received recognized registered pattern, and the receivedgroup pattern to an alert server by a second wireless transmission usinga forwarding circuit in the computer processor selected and configuredto transmit the electronic signal, wherein the forwarding circuit isselected based on proximity to the recording circuit and the receivingcircuit; and receive the electronic signal and the received recognizedregistered pattern and group pattern from the forwarding circuit, andtransmit the electronic signal and the received recognized registeredpattern to a second electronic circuit in the computer processor by athird wireless transmission.

These and other features, aspects and advantages of the presentinvention will become better understood with reference to the followingdrawings, description and claims.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 illustrates a system to create pattern gesture transmissions tocreate device-sourcing emergency information; and

FIG. 2 illustrates a method for creating pattern gesture transmissionsto create device-sourcing emergency information.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The following detailed description is of the best currently contemplatedmodes of carrying out exemplary embodiments of the invention. Thedescription is not to be taken in a limiting sense, but is made merelyfor the purpose of illustrating the general principles of the invention,since the scope of the invention is best defined by the appended claims.

Various inventive features are described below that can each be usedindependently of one another or in combination with other features.

Broadly, embodiments of the present invention generally provide a systemand method for creating pattern gesture transmissions to createdevice-sourcing emergency information.

In FIG. 1 a system 100 may include a computer device 120 that may serveas a registration device configured to register patterns for users,wherein the patterns include swiping a screen of a first electronicdevice, touching a screen of the first electronic device, a personblinking the person's eyes, the person biting the person's teeth, andthe person holding the person's breath. Other examples of patterns ofusers that may be registered include a tap-tap-tap pattern on asmartphone, a biting pattern via a “smart filing/tooth”, or a blinkingpattern using “smart glasses”, or a pattern using an exercise monitor.In an embodiment, in an emergency situation when a user 107 overserves adanger 105, it may not be feasible for a person to ask for helpverbally, or to reach for a device, such as a smartphone to call 911.Doing so may increase the danger the person is already in if the user107 observes the danger 105. The system 100 may also be used innon-emergency situations. In this situation, the invention may allow aset of pre-defined patterns to be set up, and invoked by the user,ideally in a stealth mode, so that the user can invoke a call forassistance, which can be broadcast across a “device crowding” emergencynotification system. The computer device 120 may also perform errorlogging of errors received any component in the system 100. In anembodiment, the computer device 120 may also serve as a centralcontroller to turn on or off components of the system 100.

The system 100 may include a recording device 110 including a video andan electronic sensor configured to record a received pattern, as anelectronic pattern, wherein the recording device 110 recognizes thereceived pattern as one of the registered patterns. The registeredpatterns may be in, for example, “Tap Logic”, in which taps by the user107 in a specific pattern may be recognized as one of the registeredpatterns.

The system 100 may include a receiving/forwarding device 115 configuredto observe human movement patterns with a camera, transform the observedhuman movement patterns to an electronic signal, and receive therecognized registered pattern from the recording device 110 by a firstwireless transmission.

The receiving/forwarding device 115 may be configured to transmit theelectronic signal, and the received recognized registered pattern to analert service 125 by a second wireless transmission. The system 100 mayinclude the alert service 125, configured to receive the electronicsignal and the received recognized registered pattern from thereceiving/forwarding device 115 and configured to transmit theelectronic signal and the received recognized registered pattern toemergency response entities 130, and also to a second electronic devicesuch as a communication device 135 by a third wireless transmission.

In FIG. 2 a method 200 may include a step 205 of registering patternsfor users. A step 210 may include recording a received pattern as anelectronic pattern. A step 215 may include observing human movementpatterns with a camera, and transforming the observed patterns to anelectronic signal, and receiving the recognized registered pattern fromthe recording device by a wireless transmission. A step 220 may includetransmitting the electronic signal and the received recognizedregistered pattern to an alert service. A step 225 may include receivingthe electronic signal and the received recognized registered pattern andtransmitting the electronic signal and the received recognizedregistered pattern to an electronic device.

In an embodiment, a device may contain an application or firmware, orlogic to respond to a “tap tap tap” emergency protocol. An emergencynetwork may be created to ensure that a “tap tap tap” signal isbroadcast until an emergency is resolved. A tap may, for example, be amovement or gesture such as swiping a screen, touching a screen,blinking a person's eyes, biting a person's teeth, or holding a person'sbreath. The tap may be a non verbal or audio gesture that can berecorded by a sensor or device and transmitted according to specifiedrules.

In an embodiment, a user's smart phone may be locked. The smart phonemay be enabled with firmware or an application. The user may be in anemergency situation and may tap glass on the face of the smartphone witha pre-recorded pattern. For example, “SOS” may be three short taps,three long taps, and another three short taps. A message and messagecontext may be transmitted to any connected device. The connected devicemay receive the message and message context and re-transmit the messageand message context. Registered participants may receive localizedemergency alerts from a neighbor or co-worker.

In an embodiment, a user may be a person during an emergency situation.The person may have a smart tooth filling and the person may bite anon-perceivable set of bites in a pre-defined pattern. The pattern maybe transmitted to participating devices. A participating device may besmart eyeglasses by a bank manager. A co-worker may have smart glasses,also observe the emergency situation, and may issue that co-worker'spattern by blinking a pattern. The person's pattern and the co-worker'spattern may be forwarded to wireless devices, or to a motion detectorcamera. In an embodiment, audio outside of between 20 and 20,000 cyclesper second may be forwarded to the wireless devices.

In an embodiment, users may register a pattern for the user to use fortransmission of emergency situations. An encoding set of rules may beused to create patterns for the users. An application on an electronicdevice may calibrate gestures for one of the users for a specified typeof electronic device. The application may recognize gestures and invokerules to transmit gestures to electronic devices. Transmission of thegestures to electronic devices may be dependent on time and proximity ofthe electronic devices to the source of the gesture or proximity to thedevice transmitting the gesture. The transmitting device and receivingdevices may log errors and transmit the errors to a computer server foranalysis.

In an embodiment, the non-verbal gestures may be recognized as a patternby a receiving electronic device. Groups of the non-verbal gestures maybe recognized as a group pattern. A specified action may be specifiedand invoked by one of the electronic devices for each pattern or grouppattern. A dynamic ad-hoc network of electronic devices may bedynamically created based on proximity of electronic devices to eachother, and based on proximity of the electronic devices to a source ofthe pattern or group pattern. This dynamic ad-hoc network of electronicdevices may form an emergency channel.

The present invention may be a system, a method, and/or a computerprogram product at any possible technical detail level of integration.The computer program product may include a computer readable storagemedium (or media) having computer readable program instructions thereonfor causing a processor to carry out aspects of the present invention.

The computer readable storage medium can be a tangible device that canretain and store instructions for use by an instruction executiondevice. The computer readable storage medium may be, for example, but isnot limited to, an electronic storage device, a magnetic storage device,an optical storage device, an electromagnetic storage device, asemiconductor storage device, or any suitable combination of theforegoing. A non-exhaustive list of more specific examples of thecomputer readable storage medium includes the following: a portablecomputer diskette, a hard disk, a random access memory (RAM), aread-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROMor Flash memory), a static random access memory (SRAM), a portablecompact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), a digital versatile disk (DVD),a memory stick, a floppy disk, a mechanically encoded device such aspunch-cards or raised structures in a groove having instructionsrecorded thereon, and any suitable combination of the foregoing. Acomputer readable storage medium, as used herein, is not to be construedas being transitory signals per se, such as radio waves or other freelypropagating electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic waves propagatingthrough a waveguide or other transmission media (e.g., light pulsespassing through a fiber-optic cable), or electrical signals transmittedthrough a wire.

Computer readable program instructions described herein can bedownloaded to respective computing/processing devices from a computerreadable storage medium or to an external computer or external storagedevice via a network, for example, the Internet, a local area network, awide area network and/or a wireless network. The network may comprisecopper transmission cables, optical transmission fibers, wirelesstransmission, routers, firewalls, switches, gateway computers and/oredge servers. A network adapter card or network interface in eachcomputing/processing device receives computer readable programinstructions from the network and forwards the computer readable programinstructions for storage in a computer readable storage medium withinthe respective computing/processing device.

Computer readable program instructions for carrying out operations ofthe present invention may be assembler instructions,instruction-set-architecture (ISA) instructions, machine instructions,machine dependent instructions, microcode, firmware instructions,state-setting data, configuration data for integrated circuitry, oreither source code or object code written in any combination of one ormore programming languages, including an object oriented programminglanguage such as C++, or the like, and procedural programming languages,such as the “C” programming language or similar programming languages.The computer readable program instructions may execute entirely on theuser's computer, partly on the user's computer, as a stand-alonesoftware package, partly on the user's computer and partly on a remotecomputer or entirely on the remote computer or server. In the latterscenario, the remote computer may be connected to the user's computerthrough any type of network, including a local area network (LAN) or awide area network (WAN), or the connection may be made to an externalcomputer (for example, through the Internet using an Internet ServiceProvider). In some embodiments, electronic circuitry including, forexample, programmable logic circuitry, field-programmable gate arrays(FPGA), or programmable logic arrays (PLA) may execute the computerreadable program instructions by utilizing state information of thecomputer readable program instructions to personalize the electroniccircuitry, in order to perform aspects of the present invention.

Aspects of the present invention are described herein with reference toflowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus(systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of theinvention. It will be understood that each block of the flowchartillustrations and/or block diagrams, and combinations of blocks in theflowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, can be implemented bycomputer readable program instructions.

These computer readable program instructions may be provided to aprocessor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, orother programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, suchthat the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computeror other programmable data processing apparatus, create means forimplementing the functions/acts specified in the flowchart and/or blockdiagram block or blocks. These computer readable program instructionsmay also be stored in a computer readable storage medium that can directa computer, a programmable data processing apparatus, and/or otherdevices to function in a particular manner, such that the computerreadable storage medium having instructions stored therein comprises anarticle of manufacture including instructions which implement aspects ofthe function/act specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram blockor blocks.

The computer readable program instructions may also be loaded onto acomputer, other programmable data processing apparatus, or other deviceto cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer,other programmable apparatus or other device to produce a computerimplemented process, such that the instructions which execute on thecomputer, other programmable apparatus, or other device implement thefunctions/acts specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block orblocks.

The flowchart and block diagrams in the Figures illustrate thearchitecture, functionality, and operation of possible implementationsof systems, methods, and computer program products according to variousembodiments of the present invention. In this regard, each block in theflowchart or block diagrams may represent a module, segment, or portionof instructions, which comprises one or more executable instructions forimplementing the specified logical function(s). In some alternativeimplementations, the functions noted in the blocks may occur out of theorder noted in the Figures. For example, two blocks shown in successionmay, in fact, be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks maysometimes be executed in the reverse order, depending upon thefunctionality involved. It will also be noted that each block of theblock diagrams and/or flowchart illustration, and combinations of blocksin the block diagrams and/or flowchart illustration, can be implementedby special purpose hardware-based systems that perform the specifiedfunctions or acts or carry out combinations of special purpose hardwareand computer instructions.

The descriptions of the various embodiments of the present inventionhave been presented for purposes of illustration, but are not intendedto be exhaustive or limited to the embodiments disclosed. Manymodifications and variations will be apparent to those of ordinary skillin the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the describedembodiments. The terminology used herein was chosen to best explain theprinciples of the embodiments, the practical application or technicalimprovement over technologies found in the marketplace, or to enableothers of ordinary skill in the art to understand the embodimentsdisclosed herein.

What is claimed is:
 1. A method comprising: utilizing a computerincluding a computer processor to: register patterns for users using aregistration circuit in the computer processor, wherein the patternsinclude swiping a screen of a first electronic circuit, touching ascreen of the first electronic circuit, a person blinking the person'seyes, the person biting the person's teeth, and the person holding theperson's breath; record a received pattern as an electronic patternusing a recording circuit in the computer processor including a videoand an electronic sensor configured to record a received pattern,wherein the recording circuit recognizes the received pattern as one ofthe registered patterns; observe human movement patterns with a camerausing a receiving circuit in the computer processor, transform theobserved human movement patterns to an electronic signal, and receivethe recognized registered pattern from the recording circuit by a firstwireless transmission, wherein groups of the observed human movementpatterns are recognized as a group pattern; transmit the electronicsignal, and the received recognized registered pattern, and the receivedgroup pattern to an alert server by a second wireless transmission usinga forwarding circuit in the computer processor selected and configuredto transmit the electronic signal, wherein the forwarding circuit isselected based on proximity to the recording circuit and the receivingcircuit; and receive the electronic signal and the received recognizedregistered pattern and group pattern from the forwarding circuit, andtransmit the electronic signal and the received recognized registeredpattern to a second electronic circuit in the computer processor by athird wireless transmission.